HD Interactive sends word that Nexus: The Jupiter Incident is heading into
European stores on Friday:

HD Interactive is proud to announce that Nexus
– the Jupiter Incident has now shipped and will be available at retail outlets
throughout Europe on November 5th.

Developed by Mithis Entertainment and hailed as “One of the Biggest Surprises of
the Year!!” Nexus - The Jupiter Incident is a real-time mission-based tactical
space game featuring spectacular real time-battles and breathtaking motion
picture quality. For more information on the game, visit
http://www.nexusthegame.com

Then again, Reactor, you're obviously not very good at finding readme.txt's

I played the IG3 demo and had a bad time with it the first time 'round, but after I read the readme I had a blast. By the time the Nexus demo came out, I had entirely forgotten how to play the game...but after reading the readme, it rocked (again). That spacebar is quite important

As for the backgrounds...someone has only been looking at the screenshots. Space looks just as good as in Homeworld 2, only it looks more real in Nexus.